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" l; y4 [* c4 s( R: o0 C‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
- v0 o3 e k3 R& F+ NWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
l2 Y! f. U' {. n* f" a2 KNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
. W# H4 z3 _! j) Jcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!5 W" y) C' E' d( y( M
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the3 U* a6 {3 ?9 Y' N2 t( e/ c9 o
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
/ F+ {. B. h- W% p1 S”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over! }: V; K) F* N
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
) ^* c% U0 K7 I0 d3 [pure luck.' R7 r. k0 h# z6 z0 `
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
8 K, B% r, ?& E, tIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
% {3 }$ h' D! q4 z8 \The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin: P4 `4 n* n8 @1 `2 _4 A
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
; A! L& X, A$ x& \8 E- aStreet watchdogs.
T4 a8 h/ ~% l”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," t9 M+ `0 Q1 ?
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling" f8 O" g8 l/ E, ]+ j+ [* t
four-hour confession.
, T. C+ U( M5 [( ECarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common: g% y: T- ]! K: Z- w; J
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
+ x2 ^0 ? v2 i( ]8 \knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.' _, u& |( A9 {: N4 {8 e: o
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! x; T" i4 e/ Z- Q& smake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
: c) m# j& z* h; Uin the moment.”; d% `2 L2 a( X( p2 R- X( s1 T9 \
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of1 _4 D2 \( R; \' _4 R
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.3 K2 K, k. f% b3 g$ Z6 g& U( J( e
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
1 g) G# D5 X# h* W/ gHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear& ] ^1 r( D' ~: G5 k7 Q2 j8 t
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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